Re: 2.4.0test1-ac4 - mount problem

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 16:58:11 EST


> Since there does not seem to be security issues in there, it's a
> matter of policy. Policy belongs to userspace. So do the test in the
> userspace mount, not in the kernel.

You can't. There is an implicit race. What you can do is require a
MNT_REMOUNT flag or similar so that the policy is set in user space still

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